Frances E. Jensen, MD, FACP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Chair, Department of Neurology
- Arthur Knight Asbury, M.D. Professor in Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Residency: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 1988
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Brain Foundation, National
- American College of Physicians, National
- American Epilepsy Society, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- American Pediatric Society, National
- Boston Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, National
- Child Neurology Society, National
- College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, Local
- Federal Drug Administration, National
- Gladstone Institute, National
- John Morgan Medical Society, Local
- Massachusetts Medical Society, National
- National Academy of Medicine, Institute of Medicine (IOM), National
- National Institutes of Health, National
- National Science Foundation, National
- Philadelphia Neurological Society, Local
- Roxbury Medical Improvement Society, Local
- Society for Neuroscience, International
- Stroke Council, American Heart Association, National
- The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Local
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Gourmaud, S*, Shou, H, Irwin, D, Sansalone, K, Jacobs, L, Lucas, T, Davis, K, Jensen FE, Talos, D. Alzheimer-like amyloid and tau pathology associated with cognitive deficit in temporal lobe epilepsy , Brain, 143((1)): 2020,191-209
Sun, H, Takesian, AE, Wang, TT, Lippman-Bell, JJ, Hensch, TK, and Jensen, FE. Early seizures prematurely unsilence auditory synapses to disrupt thalamocortical critical period plasticity. , Cell Reports , 23(9): 2018,2533-2540
Talos DM, Jacobs LM, Gourmaud S, Coto CA, Sun H, Lim KC, Lucas TH, Davis KA, Martinez, Lage M, Jensen FE Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 and 2 in human temporal lobe epilepsy , Ann Neurol., 83(2): 2018,311-327
Dzhala, VL, Talos, DM, Sdrulla, DA, Brumback, AC, Mathews, GC, Benk, TA, Delpire, EJ, Jensen, FE, Staley, KJ NKCC1 transporter facilitates seizures in the developing brain. , Nat Med , 11: 2005,1207-1213,
Rakhade, S, Jensen, FE Epileptogenesis in the Immature Brain: Emerging Mechanisms. , Nature Rev Neurol , 5(7): 2009,380-91,
Sun, H*, Kosaras, B, Klein, P, Jensen, FE Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 activation negatively regulates Polo-like kinase 2-mediated homeostatic compensation following neonatal seizures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. , Proc Nat Acad Sci (PNAS), 110(13): 2013,5199-204
Sengupta Soma, Weeraratne Shyamal Dilhan, Sun Hongyu, Phallen Jillian, Rallapalli Sundari K, Teider Natalia, Kosaras Bela, Amani Vladimir, Pierre-Francois Jessica, Tang Yujie, Nguyen Brian, Yu Furong, Schubert Simone, Balansay Brianna, Mathios Dimitris, Lechpammer Mirna, Archer Tenley C, Tran Phuoc, Reimer Richard J, Cook James M, Lim Michael, Jensen Frances E, Pomeroy Scott L, Cho Yoon-Jae α5-GABAA receptors negatively regulate MYC-amplified medulloblastoma growth. , Acta neuropathologica, 127(4): 2013,593-603
Frances E. Jensen with Amy Ellis Nutt The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults , Harper Collins: 2015